Ian Allinson has this morning resigned as Boreham Wood boss following the club's switch to day time training.

The 58-year-old leaves Wood at their highest ebb as a National League club after nearly eight years at the helm across two spells.

Allinson made the decision to step down as manager following the club's decision to switch from training two evenings a week to three mornings a week.

The former Arsenal winger felt he could no longer commit the necessary hours to the job whilst working full-time for Carlsberg.

He said: "This is a decision that I haven’t taken lightly. I have thought long and hard about this over the last few weeks before coming to the realisation that the new training schedule wasn’t allowing me to manage the team to the level of my expectations.

“This is not a retirement. I still have plenty of fight in me and want to carry on with new challenges and hope to continue the success I have had over the last 25 years as a manager.

“I am extremely proud of what I have achieved in the past seven and a half years at Boreham Wood. When I took over the club for the second time they had just been relegated to the Isthmian Division One North before being given a reprieve.

"I would like to go on record to personally thank the chairman, Danny Hunter, for not only his support as a chairman but for being a very close friend. I am sure this friendship will continue for many years to come.

“I would also like to thank all of my management staff past and present, the club's office staff, the great players I’ve managed and of course the supporters who have supported me and helped me give this club the success it has achieved over the last eight seasons.

"Finally I would also like to wish everyone at Boreham Wood Football Club continued success for the future as the foundations are there."

Borehamwood Times: Ian Allinson celebrates promotion with his coaching staff of Luke Garrard and Mario Noto. Picture: Sean HinksIan Allinson celebrates promotion with his coaching staff of Luke Garrard and Mario Noto. Picture: Sean Hinks

Chairman Danny Hunter continued: “In truth I was at first stunned by Ian’s resignation as it genuinely wasn’t something that I saw coming.

"The transition from evening to daytime training, though difficult, had seemed to go as well as could be expected. The players and management team, including Ian, were in the main all very much in favour of the change.

“However, in hindsight – and hindsight is a funny thing – Ian felt with the new training programme that he was not in control and simply felt he was on the outside looking in.

“We have shared so many experiences and we understood right from the start that we would need to work hard to build a great working relationship and we based our relationship on old fashioned values like honesty, trust and hard work.

“His job was safe. I knew in terms of the National League that we were going into unchartered waters but since going full-time there was clear evidence of progress being made both at the training ground and on the pitch.

“Dealing with a few defeats and a bit of supporter unrest was nothing too disturbing this early in the season and it’s not like we hadn’t experienced it all before when we first got promoted to the Conference South.

 “Our progress without Ian must continue or all the good work we have achieved together will go down the pan.

“He feels it compromises his management and unfortunately felt that it excludes him and limits his contact time with the players.

“I understand that frustration but also felt that with delegation it was a very manageable transition and was something that we could of addressed at the end of the season if it proved too much of a problem.

"That said, Ian made his decision to go and I have to respect that, understand his rationale and now do what’s right for the football club, for my staff and for our players.”

Allinson first joined Wood in 2004 but stepped down and later became director of football at Meadow Park before re-assuming control in 2008.

Promotion to the Conference South followed in 2010 via the Isthmian Premier Division play-offs and in May went one better by reaching the National League for first time in the club's history.